Power Quotes

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

People always joke that "dog" spells "god" backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Power has no limits.